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The latest in ediscovery software news, product updates, and best practices.
ediscovery-collections-guide
  • Michael Beumer

A Best Practices Guide for Managing Ediscovery Collections
A Best Practices Guide for Managing Ediscovery Collections 1000 437 Michael Beumer

Are you directing your ediscovery collections with maximum efficiency and speed? Data collection can be the most complex and technically rigorous of all ediscovery phases. It involves the extraction of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) from its native source into a separate, secure repository for review. The collection process should be comprehensive without being over-inclusive. It…

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Deposition & Motion Practice Webinar
  • Michael Beumer

Webinar: Collaboration Tips for Deposition and Motion Prep
Webinar: Collaboration Tips for Deposition and Motion Prep 1000 667 Michael Beumer

Daniel D’Angelo – Nextpoint This free, recorded webinar  gives you everything you need for deposition preparation. After the review and production phases of discovery are complete, a lot of people must collaboratively work with produced evidence to prepare a strong case. Keeping them coordinated is often a challenge, particularly when you’re working with expert witnesses…

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Winning the 26(f) Meet and Confer
  • Tricia Boguslawski

Ediscovery Planning: Winning the Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer
Ediscovery Planning: Winning the Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer 1200 700 Tricia Boguslawski

Download this Rule 26(f) Conference Checklist to walk through all the questions you need to consider to prepare for the Meet and Confer. With proper planning, you can ensure that ediscovery is a smooth process. Rule 26(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that parties meet early in a litigation to negotiate an…

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security for attorneys
  • Michael Beumer

5 Security Tips for Lawyers Working Online
5 Security Tips for Lawyers Working Online 1000 667 Michael Beumer

As long as attorney work requires access to the sensitive personal records of end clients, law firms will always be a top target for hackers. SaaS software typically offers greater security and less maintenance than locally installed products. But, users share some basic responsibility for keeping client data secure. As an attorney, this is part…

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Attorney Ethics Cloud Computing
  • Michael Beumer

Does Legal Cloud Computing Create Ethical Issues for Attorneys?
Does Legal Cloud Computing Create Ethical Issues for Attorneys? 1000 667 Michael Beumer

As is often the case with new technologies, the concept of storing legal data in the cloud battled its share of skeptics before it gained wide acceptance from vendors and law firms alike. Let’s face it, the imagery it conjures up isn’t great (clouds seem pretty out in the open), and for the technophobic, there…

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  • Michael Beumer

Nextpoint Sponsors Human Rights Watch CLE
Nextpoint Sponsors Human Rights Watch CLE 150 150 Michael Beumer

Nextpoint is proud to be sponsoring a unique CLE credit opportunity next week for Chicago attorneys, produced by global nonprofit Human Rights Watch. From noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, we’ll be sponsoring “U.S. Immigration Policy and the ‘Other’ Refugee Crisis,” an HRW law symposium at the Weinberg-Newton Gallery in River North. Lunch will…

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Legal cloud security standards
  • Michael Beumer

LCCA Sets New Cloud Security Standards for Legal
LCCA Sets New Cloud Security Standards for Legal 1920 1080 Michael Beumer

Cybersecurity and protection of privileged client data are vital concerns in the legal industry. The ABA Model Rules impose a duty on lawyers to use reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to client data and recently made related changes to address the advances of technology. Today at ABA TECHSHOW, leaders from six legal cloud computing…

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Nextpoint in class
  • Michael Beumer

Chicago-Kent Law Students Get Hands-on eDiscovery Experience
Chicago-Kent Law Students Get Hands-on eDiscovery Experience 1000 667 Michael Beumer

If Bo knows sports, you could say Ko knows legal tech. Mike Ko, a former attorney and the owner of Groundwork Trial Consulting in Chicago (see: Obrycka v. City of Chicago and Goldberg v. Donald Trump), helps lawyers incorporate technology into their practices from mediation to trial. He also teaches Litigation Technology, an advanced trial advocacy…

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  • Rakesh Madhava

Deep Down, Lawyers Love Technology
Deep Down, Lawyers Love Technology 150 150 Rakesh Madhava

For lawyers, there is a decided focus on the past. Precedent is the godhead. Show a lawyer technology that helps them better present their argument (PowerPoint, tablets, laser pointers), and they want it. NOW. Introduce telephony that improves the speed of lawyer-client communication (Blackberry, iPhone), and they will embrace it wholly. The legal industry has…

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Lawyers in legal tech?
  • Rakesh Madhava

Does Legal Tech Really Need More Lawyers?
Does Legal Tech Really Need More Lawyers? 1000 667 Rakesh Madhava

Software built for lawyers by lawyers — a number of legal tech startups have recently etched this on their marketing sandwich boards. And, a recent thought-provoking post on Lawyerist.com suggested the underlying problem with legal technology is that there aren’t enough lawyers actually employed by companies in the legal tech space. Sam Harden writes that until we “see…

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